Economic Development Cornwall

After five years of making her handmade beeswax-based cosmetics, beauty products and deodorants for a dedicated group of customers, Cornwall entrepreneur Helen Bertrim received a big break earlier this month.

The South Korean ambassador, Shin Maeng-ho, will be visiting Cornwall on Dec. 1, along with a group of nine other Korean diplomats, as part of a cultural-exchange program called the “Village Visit Program.”

Coun. Elaine MacDonald’s dismay over the City of Cornwall’s scramble to find money to help a property developer remediate one of the community’s many brownfields has convinced her to try and change how Ontario municipalities tax polluters.